*Toyota hid speed defect, lawsuit says By Reuters (October 29, 2010) Toyota secretly bought back from US consumers vehicles it found with speed-control defects as part of a strategy to hide unintended-acceleration problems from safety regulators and the public, a revised lawsuit claims. www.lfpress.com *`Toyota Technicians’ Confirmed Sudden Acceleration, Lawyers Say in Filings www.bloomberg.com *Toyota accused of forcing auto owners to keep quiet Detroit Free Press www.freep.com *Toyota is denying allegations that its own technicians, as far back as 2006, experienced sudden acceleration in vehicles from complaining owners. The accusations are in documents filed yesterday in federal court. Toyota says its technicians were unable to duplicate the alleged problem claimed by drivers in two instances. www.9and10news.com *Toyota kept sudden acceleration issue silent, lawsuit says Workers allegedly saw and replicated events of unintended acceleration, and owners of the vehicles were sworn to secrecy. www.latimes.com *Unfortunately, ‘Cover-Up’ is Typical Japanese culture. In Japan there is a proverb, “If it stinks, put a lid on it.” online.wsj.com
You have this guy in a Prius that calls police for help and he says to apply the brakes and the emergency brake? REALLY? Even the news says to apply firm pressure to the brakes. REALLY? Why not just shut it off you FOOLS?! Nobody ever thought of that? Or even putting it in neutral would be a better idea than fighting speed with brakes. Sure, you would blow your engine, but Toyota would have to give you a new one and you would at least not DIE trying to overcompensate the accelerator, which won’t work.
Hey Masked Akitist, next time you are on the freeway, shut your car off and give it a try. Once your car is MOVING, steering is just as easy as if was power steering. Power assisted steering is for when the car is STOPPED. I ran out of gas once on the highway in the HOV lane and changed 5 lanes over AND made a right hand turn into a gas station. Cars in the 50s didn’t even have power steering. Guess you need to visit the gym or learn your facts.
Oh and to think of it, my 2 TON WRECKER died on the highway and I was able to safely steer it to the shoulder..so ANYONE ought to be able to steer a Prius that weighs less than most bicycles.
And you thought that they only built cars. One of the highlights of the SAE Congress, judging by the crowd, wasn’t a car or a new type of hybrid fuel system, but a robot that played the blues. Link to The Blog www.lotpro.com
CBS plans on competing with the extremely popular Online video site Hulu with the relaunch of TV.Com. CBS purchased the domain from Cnet for 1.85 billion dollars, and it was originally a “water cooler site” where the latest TV shows were discussed by writers and fans. But CBS head Les Moonves revealed that the new TV.Com will be much more ambitious when he said “we think TV.Com will become the destination, or certainly one of the leading destinations, for anybody who wants to watch TV shows or have a community around TV shows, see clips, play games, etc. A gigantically popular social networking site is brought down to Earth as Facebook has been given an honest valuation of about 2 billion dollars, a much more realistic number than when it was valued at 15 billion dollars last Fall. The massively popular social networking site is not publicly traded, but the casual market for shares has valued them at 2.50 to 4 dollars each. Bad news for the millions of users of the most popular Web Browser in the world… they could be at risk of having their machines hacked because of a security flaw in Internet Explorer. 10000 or more sites have been hacked with programming that allows hackers to steal passwords and other sensitive information. So far, most of the sites that have been hacked using bad code are Chinese, but hackers anywhere could still exploit the problem, which has not yet been corrected. Who’s laughing now? David Laikin, CEO of the National Lampoon, has been charged …
